At a Manhattan Barnes & Nobel in Manhattan last week, financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin asked budding "centrist independent" presidential candidate Howard Schultz if he agreed with Winners Take All author Anand Giridharadas — plus Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other wealth-tax Democrats — that "billionaires have too much power in American public life." At least one viewer enjoyed his answer.

"You haven’t lived until you've seen Howard Schultz's facial muscles react when @andrewrsorkin asks, on my behalf, if billionaires have too much power in American life," Giridharadas tweeted above a video of Schultz's answer. The interview is most famous for a heckler who called Schultz an "egotistical, billionaire a--hole," and the former Starbucks CEO began by suggesting the label "billionaire" might be a little toxic nowadays. He offered some alternatives.

"The moniker 'billionaire' now has become the catchphrase," Schultz said. "I would rephrase that and I would say 'people of means' have been able to leverage their wealth and their interest in ways that are unfair. And I think that speaks to the inequality, but it also directly speaks to the special interests that are paid for by people of wealth and corporations who are looking for influence, and they have such unbelievable influence on the politicians who are steeped in the ideology of both parties." He's not, he said. "All I'm trying to do is one thing: Walk in the shoes of the American people."

Schultz did not at that moment explain what "ideology" has to do with money in politics, which "special interests" he finds problematic, or how "people of means" and "people of wealth" think they can "walk in the shoes of the American people" while they still have, unlike most of the American people, many billions of dollars. But he does address his humble upbringing in the hourlong Q&A, and you can watch the entire thing if you are interested. Peter Weber

Fox News senior analyst Brit Hume doesn't think Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) should get a pass for defending white nationalism and white supremacy, he told Marth MacCallum on Tuesday's The Story. "I'm sorry, the juxtaposition of what's wrong with those terms and white supremacism is just too close for comfort." But journalists have to be careful not to go "throwing the word racist around with abandon," he argued, because while the Civil Rights movement rightfully stigmatized racism in the 1960s, the word "racist" has since been "weaponized."

Hume singled out The New York Times for running an article listing "racist" things King has said, objecting to their inclusion of anti-Islamic statements, and he criticized NBC News for rescinding its guidance that NBC journalists shouldn't call King a racist. The media should just "accurately" quote what people say and let people "make up their own minds" if it's racist, he said. "I think it is absolutely one of the things it is wrong with the news media today and why we as an institution stand in such low esteem," Hume said. "People think we are biased, and this suggests that indeed we are."

"Fox News earned some credit on Twitter when its news alert called King's comments racist," but "the conservative network hasn't given the story much air time," notes HuffPost's Lydia O'Connor. "King's quote got a 30-second mention on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning, in which the hosts referred to his statement as 'comments about white supremacy and white nationalism.' For comparison's sake, the show spent 12 minutes discussing a razor commercial that day." Peter Weber

About a quarter of the federal government is shut down indefinitely because President Trump is demanding $5 billion for a border wall, Democrats are countering with $1.3 billion for border security, and Congress has the power of the purse. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Sunday, outgoing White House Chief of Staff John Kelly threw a little nuance into the standoff.

"To be honest, it's not a wall," Kelly told the Times in a sort of exit interview Friday. "The president still says 'wall' — oftentimes frankly he'll say 'barrier' or 'fencing,' now he's tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it." Kelly was Trump's first Homeland Security secretary, and when he first asked the border-security "salt-of-the-earth, Joe-Six-Pack folks" in U.S. Customs and Border Protection about Trump's wall, he told the Times, "they said, 'Well we need a physical barrier in certain places, we need technology across the board, and we need more people.'"

Kelly has downplayed Trump's wall idea before, drawing Trump's ire by telling House Democrats and then Fox News last January that the president's views on the wall had "evolved," after being "not fully informed" during the campaign. Trump tweet-responded that "the Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it." He has recently suggested he still means a coast-to-coast barrier, though he's testing out phrases like "artistically designed steel slats."

"Kelly was known to tell aides that he had the 'worst job in the world,' and frequently told people that Mr. Trump was not up to role of president," The New York Times reports, citing two former administration officials. Kelly told the Los Angeles Times that he stayed on the job for 17 months out of a sense of duty. "Military people," he said, "don't walk away." Peter Weber

Former President Barack Obama doesn't care if his namesake health-care legislation becomes TrumpCare. In fact, he encourages it.

Obama apparently told President Trump to just change the Affordable Care Act's nickname instead of repealing it, CNN reports. "I said to the incoming president, 'Just change the name and claim that you made these wonderful changes,'" Obama said at a Democratic fundraiser Thursday night. "Because I didn't have pride of authorship, I just wanted people to have health care."

Getting rid of ObamaCare and replacing it with something better was a hallmark Trump campaign promise. And while President Trump hasn't exactly followed through, Obama pointed out at the fundraiser that Republicans have surgically removed key parts of the original law, per CNN. The GOP tax plan passed in December ended ObamaCare's individual mandate requiring Americans to have health insurance.

But Trump probably realized creating a sweeping health-care law wasn't easy, Obama said Thursday, adding that "we had actually thought it through and it's a hard thing to do." So keep the ACA and call it RyanCare, call it ReaganCare, call it TrumpCare — Obama says there's nothing to the name. Kathryn Krawczyk

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcomed their third child, a boy, on Monday, and while they've revealed his weight and the time he was born, they've remained mum about one very important detail: the little prince's name.

Not content with waiting for an official announcement, internet sleuths turned to the royal family's website for some clues. They found that most members of the family have their own pages, including Queen Elizabeth and Prince Harry, which follow the same pattern: royal.uk/their-name. On Prince George and Princess Charlotte's pages, it says "access denied," and that same message popped up when people tried to visit royal.uk/prince-albert. Type in other names, like prince-james and prince-arthur, and it merely says the page cannot be found.

Since this was discovered, the royal web developer made a change — now, royal.uk/prince-albert redirects to the website's home page. Albert is a name that runs in the royal family — there was Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, and it was also King George VI's birth name and one of Prince Andrew and Prince Harry's middle names. Albert was rumored to be one of the names under consideration, with British bookmakers at one point having the odds at 5-1, so for those who thought the baby might be named Prince Brayden Jayden Kayden, sorry. Catherine Garcia

The Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing oral arguments for Lee v. Tam, an intellectual property case challenging a 71-year-old federal ban on "disparaging" trademarks. Immediately at issue is a Portland dance-rock band called The Slants, but how the case is decided is expected to have broader implications — including for the Washington Redskins.

The Slants' band members are Asian-American, and they wanted to trademark the name as a way to reclaim the slur. "I thought that was interesting," band member Simon Tam toldThe New York Times, because "we can talk about our slant on life on what it's like to be people of color." Tam grew up listening to bands that similarly took stigmatizing labels "and flip these assumptions on their heads." So when his trademark application got rejected, he assumed it was a paperwork error — until he noticed the rejection reason given was that the name is "disparaging to persons of Asian ethnicity." "Well, do they know we're of Asian descent?" Tam wondered.

Tam's case has now made it to the Supreme Court, where initial arguments see the justices skeptical of the government's claim to have a legitimate interest in preventing consumer "distraction" by disparaging trademarks, as well as the argument that trademarks, unlike copyrights, "generally have not historically served as vehicles for expression" of viewpoints which are protected as free speech.

As for the Redskins, their trademark was canceled in 2014 on grounds that it too is disparaging, in that case of Native Americans. The team has filed suit to regain the trademark, but if The Slants win their case, depending on the details of the decision, the Redskins might get their trademark back, too. Bonnie Kristian

If this election season has been draining, take heart in the knowledge that it could be worse: You could be a totally innocent person saddled with the name "Hillary Clinton" or "Donald Trump." CNN has tracked down two such unfortunates, she a 20-something music festival organizer and he a doctor who manages a cancer institute in Virginia.

Clinton, who now goes by "Hill," was born shortly before the Clintons entered the White House, but her parents insist the name is coincidental. Today, Clinton's emails are regularly ignored by people who believe they are campaign spam, and she is often accidentally tagged on Facebook by people who are trying to reference Clinton the candidate.

Dr. Trump has several times interacted with his more famous counterpart, once soliciting his support for a cancer fundraiser. The event's theme was "Bald for Bucks" — participants would raise money with a promise to shave their heads — and The Donald decided to simply donate rather than losing his infamous hair.

Both Hill Clinton and Dr. Donald Trump will be voting for Hillary Clinton, though Hill notes that she's "screwed either way." Trump is scary, she says, but if "Hillary Clinton wins, then it's just going to get worse ... for me." Bonnie Kristian

Black Elk was a Lakota spiritual leader who died in 1950. A book written about his life, Black Elk Speaks, has been translated into multiple languages, and he was a second cousin of Crazy Horse. "He's definitely a very powerful visionary that is at least deserving of the peak's name," Wayne Frederick, a representative of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe tribal council, told The Associated Press. "It's extremely uplifting." Army Gen. William S. Harney's troops massacred Native American women and children during a battle in 1855, historical records say. The name change was suggested by Basil Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, who said in 2015 he didn't want to see a peak "named after someone that violated women and children. Our people had to live under that icon, that man who did that to our people."

The new name will be used by the federal government on maps and other products. The board's executive secretary told AP they felt the "name was derogatory or offensive, being that it was on a holy site of the Native Americans." The governor of South Dakota, Dennis Daugaard (R), feels differently, calling the name change an "unnecessary expense and confusion. I suspect very few people know the history of either Harney or Black Elk." Sen. John Thune (R) says the decision "defies logic." Catherine Garcia